Cranes are an extremely useful and important piece of equipment on the majority of construction sites. They can also be extremely dangerous if they are not understood or respected.
In the video below, you’ll see tracked crane attempting to lift a bulldozer up what appears to be a 60-70 foot tall retaining wall. When it gets the machine near the top of the wall, the crane begins to tip and the bulldozer falls back down to the bottom of the excavation. There are also 2 workers that are repelling down the side of the retaining wall as the dozer falls. They both appeared to be uninjured.
It’s unknown whether any injuries occurred, but we certainly hope everyone made it out safe. The only other additional information we have is from the Facebook video description explaining that it happened in Mexico.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve seen a crane collapse trying to raise or lower a bulldozer, either. Back in 2016, we shared a similar video of an incident that happened in Russia.
The video below was uploaded to Facebook by Real Zona Cero +18.
On Tuesday morning, February 23, the Syracuse Fire Department responded to a call about a collapsed crane on a construction site near the university. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.